Timothy Hochberg wrote:
>>> On 10/29/07, *Christopher Barker* <Chris.Barker@noaa.gov> <mailto:Chris.Barker@noaa.gov>> wrote:
>> >> (incidently, the kind of things 'we' are doing seem like the most
> > simple things to JIT).
>> Wouldn't a numpy-aware psyco be cool then?
>> Oh well, I'm not going to write it!
>> (though as I think about it, for the special case of a contiguous
> array,
> it would be awfully similar to an array.array --- hmmm.)
>>> Psyco is aware of array.array and can operate on array.array's quite
> fast. [In fact, somewhere I have a ndarray-like class based on Psyco
> that runs pretty fast for integers, but not so fast for floats]. The
> problem that Psyco has for numeric purposes is that it has no concept
> of floating point numbers. It can "natively" store only a few
> different things: ints, pointers, and arrays of ints or pointers. To
> put, for example, doubles, onto the Psyco stack or into one of it's
> registers, you need to break the bits of the double up, and stuff them
> into a couple of different int registers. Then to operate on them you
> need to put them back together, since they may get separated. All of
> this adds a fair amount of overhead.
>> I've been hoping that the PyPy jit will address this, but I haven't
> had time to follow that project closely enough to see if that's on the
> agenda.
My impression is that it is hard to follow pypy when you are not 'part
of it', but just from the ML, and a couple of questions of mine, my
understanding is that it is on the agenda. They have a JIT (maybe does
not work on float, though), there is work on numpy arrays at the rpython
level (rpython being the typed subset of python pypy is using at their
core).
cheers,
David
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